遊龍戲鳳
The Wandering Dragon Toys with the Phoenix (part 1 of 12)
The opening of a complete performance of the opera about the Zhengde emperor flirting with a tavern girl, recorded in Shanghai in September 1901 by the anthropologist Berthold Laufer. He hired a troupe of actresses and ran two phonographs at once, one for the singers and one for the four-piece band; the paired cylinders have been synchronised into an accidental early stereo recording.
- Performer
- A troupe of actresses, Shanghai
- Instruments
- Voice 聲, Mixed ensemble 合奏
- Era
- Late Qing
- Recorded
- 1901
- Length
- 3:03
- Licence
- Public domain · Recorded by Berthold Laufer for the American Museum of Natural History; stereo reconstruction by Patrick Feaster (griffonage.com), via Wikimedia CommonsRecorded 1901; unpublished field recording, public domain in the US (pre-1923 sound recording).
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons